As Earth Day 2023 approaches, we invite you to use the coming weeks as an opportunity to engage your students in thoughtful classroom conversation about environmental issues and themes using documentaries from the Bullfrog Films collection.
These and other documentaries are available for purchase and rental by schools, libraries, and other organizations; our convenient new dropdown ordering menu makes it easy to find the correct media format and license type for your institution. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek.
Campus and community groups interested in hosting a community screening can book now through Bullfrog Communities; our annual Earth Day Festival-In-A-Box special, with discounted pricing on multiple film titles, is available now for both in-person and virtual screening events. Read on for more details!
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Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American history. Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty is a feature documentary that examines the trajectory of Udall's life from his childhood through his Mormon mission, his World War II service, his student years at the University of Arizona, his time in Congress, and then, most significantly, his years as Secretary of the Interior and beyond. Through stories of Udall's political life, we see the relevance of his concerns—from his change of position on dam building to his prescient warnings about the effects of climate change—to our present-day environmental crises.
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Seeking no one’s help and asking nobody’s permission, Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are gathering any large woolly beast they can get their hands on, and transporting them, by whatever low budget means they can contrive, to the most remote corner of Siberia. They call their project Pleistocene Park. The goal: restore the Ice Age “mammoth steppe” ecosystem—thereby preventing Arctic permafrost melt and slowing its release of sequestered carbon—and avoid a catastrophic climate feedback loop leading to runaway global warming. Can two Russian scientists stave off a worst case scenario of global environmental catastrophe and reshape humanity’s relationship with the natural world? The clock is ticking. |
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Growing, processing, packaging and transporting the foods that we eat everyday uses enormous amounts of energy, water, and chemicals, creating an overwhelming burden on our planet's resources. And, remarkably, Americans throw out nearly half of the food we produce. The 5-part Fixing Food series tells the stories of innovators across the U.S. who are working to lower our carbon footprint with impactful new ways of gathering and preparing the foods we need. The series looks at five important areas where these changes are being made—farming in the ocean and the air, finding new food sources, learning from Indigenous agriculture, and rescuing the food we already have.
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The conditions that make life possible are rapidly changing. Reckoning with this reality on the cusp of a record-setting dry season, filmmaker Emmett Brennan embarks on a powerful journey to find stories of hope and healing. Brennan sets out to walk 200 miles next to the Los Angeles aqueduct. Along the way he encounters cultural leaders, ecological iconoclasts, and indigenous wisdom keepers who are re-envisioning our relationship to water. The water cycle is being broken, they say, and the consequence is an increasingly erratic and uninhabitable planet. Through a series of intimate vignettes, Reflection: a walk with water offers essential guidance for reviving this cycle.
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Animal agriculture and related land use generate one-quarter of annual greenhouse gas emissions; the three most consumed meats from ruminant livestock (cattle, sheep, and goats) use two-thirds of global agricultural land. Now, imagine a world where real meat is produced sustainably without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals. This is no longer science fiction—it's now within reach. Meat the Future follows Dr. Uma Valeti, co-founder of leading "cultivated" meat startup Upside Foods, as he and his team develop a game-changing solution to a global, unsustainable hunger for meat.
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Thirst for Justice follows Janene Yazzie, a Navajo mother of two, as she searches for the source of contamination in the school water supply in Sanders, AZ. Armed with a Geiger counter she begins investigating radioactive waste on the Navajo Nation. When the epic movement for water justice ignites in Standing Rock, Janene is compelled to join. There she meets Flint water activist Nayyirah Shariff, and their struggles converge.
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In celebration of Earth Day, Bullfrog Communities, a project of Bullfrog Films, is ecstatic to announce the Earth Day Festival in a Box special for community and campus-wide screenings! Choose ANY combination of 3 or 5 environmental films and hold a film festival or series of public screenings on your campus or in your community. You can charge admission or host free event to raise awareness about key issues to help spread and inspire change. It's up to YOU!
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For additional films on the environment and environmental justice, please browse our subject areas.
To order these or other Bullfrog Films releases,
Order by phone at (610) 779-8226
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Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of documentary films about the environment in the United States. We define "environment" broadly, and our catalog includes programs on ecology, energy, agriculture, indigenous peoples, women's studies, genetics, marine biology, sustainable development, community regeneration, economics, ethics, and conflict resolution. |
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